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How do banks work? What does the City do? Why do prices rise or fall? Is competition wasteful? How can we create more wealth? What causes globalization and how does it affect people? This book answers these and other questions, not in the way that economics textbooks do - with graphs, abstract models, Jargon-ridden theory, and mathematical equations ..

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Contents -- About The Author -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Everyday Economics -- 1. Trading Things, Creating Wealth -- 2. What Things Are Worth, And When -- 3. Prices, Selling And Buying -- 4. Producing And Distributing -- 5. Enterprise -- 6. Money And Currency -- 7. Banks and Finance -- 8. Competition, Monopolies, And Setting The Rules -- 9. Taxes -- 10. International Trade -- 11. Globalistation And Devlopment -- 12. Overview -- Glossary -- Index

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